| Boricua Passport Contributor(s): Torres, J. L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1940939194 ISBN-13: 9781940939193 Publisher: 2leaf Press OUR PRICE: $15.29 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - Hispanic American - Poetry | Caribbean & Latin American |
| LCCN: 2013954040 |
| Physical Information: 0.24" H x 6" W x 9" (0.36 lbs) 116 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America - Cultural Region - Caribbean & West Indies |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: BORICUA PASSPORT evokes the complex in-betweeness that represents the contemporary Puerto Rican condition as filtered through the prism of poet J.L. Torres' life experience. For many Puerto Ricans the sense of being unhomed--having a homeland but not really feeling at home anywhere--is a real lived experience determined by a persisting and unsettled colonial condition. In BORICUA PASSPORT, Torres, screams, shouts, rejoices, celebrates, tickles and challenges with a poetry sprinkled with Spanish/Spanglish that is immediate and urgent. His is a testimony to the indefatigable Puerto Rican spirit which, although burdened by this colonial condition, still strives to cobble a hybrid world full of love, passion and hope. BORICUA PASSPORT will transport any reader into this limbo world with all its fascinating incongruities and descriptive vistas. It's your passport into a world simultaneously real and imaginary, one most people don't even know exists. A must read |
Contributor Bio(s): Torres, J. L.: - J. L. TORRES is Professor of English at SUNY Plattsburgh, where he teaches both American literature, Latina/o Literatures, and Creative Writing. He has published poetry in journals such as the Denver Quarterly, the Americas Review, Crab Orchard Review, Bilingual Review, Connecticut Review, Tulane Review, Puerto del Sol, among others, most of which are in BORICUA PASSPORT. He is the author of The Family Terrorist and Other Stories (Arte Publico, 2008), and the novel, The Accidental Native (Arte Publico, 2013). Torres also serves as Editor of the Saranac Review; and along with Carmen Haydee Rivera, he is the co-editor of Writing Off the Hyphen: New Perspectives on the Literature of the Puerto Rican Diaspora. Visit him at www.JLTorres.net/wp or on Facebook. |